From Lifeline to Hammock: How Food Stamps Became a Way of Life

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From Lifeline to Hammock: How Food Stamps Became a Way of Life
https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/10/26/from-lifeline-to-hammock-how-food-stamps-became-a-way-of-life-n4945282?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=fc85d9fd0a377773055f1925941bbce485d3c69b5dace0c187ab5912dd7d0cd7&lctg=26251812

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From Lifeline to Hammock, and to Dependence
Now the safety net is showing its seams. With the federal government shut down as of October 1, 2025, the USDA has warned that full SNAP benefits may not be issued for November. States like Virginia have declared emergencies and are scrambling to use state funds to keep families fed. Why the urgency? Because for millions, SNAP is no longer a supplement; it’s the entire food budget.

This moment lays bare what decades of mission drift have built. When a temporary pause in federal spending threatens to empty refrigerators across the country, it’s clear the program has grown far beyond its intent. What was once a lifeline has become a dependency.

And that dependency has been thrown into the spotlight by the very people who claim to champion the poor. The Democrats’ refusal to pass a clean continuing resolution, choosing instead to hold out for unrelated spending priorities, has exposed just how brittle the system they expanded has become. If your household cannot eat without federal intervention, that’s not compassion. That’s captivity.

The real tragedy isn’t that people need help; it’s that Washington turned “supplemental” into “sustaining,” and then built political leverage out of it. My grandparents treated their food stamps with humility, stretching every dollar with care. Today, an entire nation is being taught to panic when the pipeline pauses. That’s not stewardship. That’s dependency weaponized.



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